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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1910
Page
2
Fire gutted the E. Bancroft & Son barrel factory on Cambridge Street yesterday afternoon. The smoke forced several families from nearby homes while damage to stock and building is estimated around $6000. The galvanized east wing helped shield surrounding wooden tenements.
Dr Charles W Eliot former Harvard president addressed the City History Club of Boston at 207 Commonwealth avenue urging a better civic education in city schools. He criticized the current system as loose and lacking real purpose for teaching government.
The Rev. Robert Mac Donald D D of Washington Avenue Baptist Church Brooklyn New York is expected to accept the call to the Central Congregational Church in Lynn Massachusetts, as of January 24.
The Alexander Campbell Milk Company, a large New York milk distributor, announced that on February 1 the price of milk would drop from nine cents to eight cents a quart.
The Senate passed a bill mandating life preservers on all motor boats. The act sets a $100 penalty for each omission, raised from $10 at Senator Carter's request.
The steam lighter Rancocas found near Stamford harbor after running aground on Thursday night was floated today and towed to New York for repairs. A diver’s inspection revealed a four by four foot hole under the boiler room amid the plaster cargo from Staten Island to New Haven.
Edith Staples, wife of the crew on the schooner S. G. Haskell, survives a wreck off Chat ham and a tide-water wagon accident. She remains calm and resolute, saying she will voyage again and prefers life at sea to land danger.
A wife endures days of hardship as a northeast gale drives her husband’s small schooner closer to peril. The storm’s force tests their endurance and resolve amid the sea.
Advertisement for Dr Kilmer s Swamp Root claims many kidneys suffer undetected, urging readers to try the kidney liver and bladder remedy. It promotes sample bottles and a free information book, listing contact in Binghamton New York and noting Boston Daily Post readers should reference the offer.
Levi Jackson and four Boston haddock fishermen in the power boat Priscilla rescued Captain Haskell and 13 crewmen aboard the Mertie B Crowley after a wreck near Vineyard Haven. A calm day followed, delaying further salvage. Jackson, 32, from Edgartown, and his small vessel earned wide praise for the lifesaving effort.
At dawn the schooner 8S G Haskell remains aground on Handkerchief shoals after three days. The Acushnet and Mercury attempt to refloat it while cargo and gear are salvaged. The Gresham reports finding the derelict Henry B Fiske bottom up. eight crewmen believed lost in last week's storm.
The steamer Renwick from Sydney Nova Scotia ran four days overdue but arrived safely at St John’s Newfoundland last night. Locals call it almost a miracle that the vessel sustained no damage.
The Bona Venture towed the Bengore Head to St Johns after a ferocious storm. The Bona Venture’s captain filed libel seeking 8000 salvage from Bengore Head's owners. The Bengore Head and its cargo are valued at 250000.
In New York on January 24 the Italian steamer Re d Italia swung at the Jersey City dock striking the tug Archibald Watt and another tug moored to the pier. The Watt sank quickly after a hole was stove in her hull.
Word from yesterday reports the schooner Frank Huckins ashore on Frying Pan Shoals while en route from New York to Jacksonville to load lumber for Boston. Owned by Hirsch Lumber Company, the Bath built vessel dates to 1903.
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